Astronaut Alan Shepard was the first American in space and the fifth person to walk on the moon. Despite that illustrious resume, he might be best remembered by many of us for the time he hit two golf ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Carlos Villagomez was gifted this golf ball by Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard soon after the ...

50th anniversary of Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 flight. May 5, 2011 — -- Fifty years ago today, astronaut Alan Shepard squeezed into a tiny Mercury capsule and challenged the heavens. He called his ...

Yeah. The US space program reached *** monumental milestone on May 5, 1961 when NASA sent the first American into space. Alan Shepherd was the only astronaut aboard the freedom seven space capsule ...

Fifty-three years ago Monday, Derry, New Hampshire, native Alan Shepard walked on the moon while on the Apollo 14 mission on Feb. 5, 1971.Shepard was the commander of the mission that launched on a ...

NOW THROUGH NOVEMBER 30TH. TODAY IS ALAN SHEPARD’S 100TH BIRTHDAY. HE WAS THE FIRST AMERICAN MAN TO GO TO SPACE, AND HE’S FROM DERRY, THE JUNIOR HISTORY ARYANS, A GROUP OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS CREATED ...

This video follows Alan Shepard and the Mercury-Redstone 3 mission, the United States’ first manned spaceflight launched just ...

Sixty years after her father became the first American in space, Laura Shepard Churchley, daughter of Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, rocketed out of the lower atmosphere Saturday, joining ABC TV ...